1Animoto

www.animoto.com
Animoto auto-generates cool slideshow videos using your own uploaded photos and music. Just select which pics you want to use (from your hard drive or sites like Flickr and Facebook), arrange them in the order you want, choose a music track or upload your own, and then sit back for a few minutes and let Animoto work its magic. You end up with a polished finished product complete with transitions and effects. Thirty-second clips are free, longer clips cost $3.

2Drop.io

drop.io
Drop.io is, put simply, the best file-sharing service we've seen. Just type in the URL you'd like to use, upload your files (up to 100MB), set a password and/or privacy setting, and choose how long the link should be live (up to a year from the last page view). Sharing the files is then as easy as sending the URL around. There's no registration, no cost, and no limit to how many URLs you can use.

3Ecosystem: The Netvibes Widget Directory

eco.netvibes.com
You've probably heard of Netvibes, the personal start page service. But did you know Netvibes also has a huge widget directory? Besides modifying your Netvibes page, these widgets are compatible with OS X, Vista, iPhone, and iGoogle, and you can search for cool widgets or code and upload your own.

4Jooce

www.jooce.com
This desktop-away-from-desktop lets you access your personal stuff from any computer. Load up your browser-based Jooce desktop with files, music, videos, IM buddy lists, and anything else you might need and you can get to it just by logging in. And Jooce looks and feels like a real desktop, with a slick UI and good responsiveness.

5Jott (beta)

www.jott.com
Jott is one of the coolest application of speech to text technologies we have seen. Once you sign up for a free account, call Jott on your phone and you can leave a message which will be converted to text and posted on your blog, twitter speed or to do list. The conversion is surprisingly accurate. In fact, we spoke this paragraph into jot and this is how is came out. (You can listen to the original message here.)

6Mux

www.mux.am
Mux is an excellent video conversion/sharing site that lets you enter in the URL of a video clip (or its location on your hard drive) and specify what format you'd like to receive the video in (iPod, PSP, DivX, MPEG-4, and lots more). Give it a few minutes to work its magic, and Mux will send you an e-mail with the location from which you can download your newly formatted video.

7PageOnce

www.pageonce.com
PageOnce collects your account info for just about any online account you might have and aggregates the info into a single page that looks good and is easy to keep track of. Keep tabs on your bank or investment accounts, see what's going on with your social-network profiles, check how many minutes you have left on your cell-phone plan, or even which Netflix movies are on the way.

8Plurk

www.plurk.com
This Twitter-like microblogging service goes beyond Twitter by letting users share images and video clips through their Plurk feeds. The interface is also a lot more fun to use, and guess what: It rarely crashes (sorry, Twitter).

9PurpleTrail

www.purpletrail.com
This event-planning site will need to build a lot more momentum before it can challenge established services like Evite, or even the invite features built into Facebook and MySpace. But PurpleTrail has the features to give them a run for their money.

10Scrapblog

www.scrapblog.com
Want to do more with your pics than just dump them online? Scrapblog lets you grab your photos from Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Picasa, and many more photo sites, and use them to construct cool (and free) multimedia scrapbooks. You can also use video in your scrapbooks, and the interface is very easy to use.

11Utterz

www.utterz.com
This blogging/forum service lets you post your contentwhether text, audio, photo, or videoacross multiple blogs and social networks. Utterz is also specially optimized for use with mobile phones, letting you update your blog from anywhere.

12BizarroBlog

bizarrocomic.blogspot.com
The comic strip Bizarro has been syndicated in newspapers since 1985, but it's even more enjoyable with cartoonist Dan Piraro's commentary, which usually follows on this blog a few days after the panel has run in papers. It's like DVD commentary, but for a comic strip. It usually covers where Piraro's idea for the strip came from, but he also is honest about what he thinks went awry, and throws in the occasional reaction from crazy people who accuse the award-winning cartoonist and comic of stealing their ideas from their old, obscure pamphlets.

13Chime.TV

www.chimetv.com
There's plenty of aggregated video sites, but Chime.TV pulls from the best (Break.com, Dailymotion, Veoh, and others) to make editor-created channels filled with stuff you'll love. The channels feature the latest episodes of shows like Will It Blend? and Chad Vader, as well as channels for news, cute stuff, extreme sports, technology, and about 20 moreincluding stuff from the network TV sites. It might seem a little odd when you could just visit the sites, but think of Chime.TV as the site that provides the constant background video comfort we use TVs for.

14Group Card

www.groupcard.com
Group Card lets a group of people sign and send a free e-card, which works well for sharing a card with officemates, friends, or family members. The selection isn't much better than what you'd find in the card aisle at your local drugstore, but anything that saves us from spending $5 on a paper card is great with us.

15JakeandAmir.com

www.jakeandamir.com
Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld work at the New York City offices of CollegeHumor.com. The characters they play in their online video sketch series have the same names, same jobs, but they are... twisted. Considering it's mainly a hobby they do after work, the webisodes at JakeAndAmir.com are better than some of the stuff they get paid to do for CollegeHumor.

16Oddee

www.oddee.com
Oddee collects and archives the weird photos blowing around the Internet, broken down into Digg-friendly and easily digestible lists. Honestly, we have no idea how some of these shots could not be tweaked by a creative photo editorexcept, of course, for this list of the "12 Worst Photoshop Mistakes ever."

17PointlessSites.com

www.pointlesssites.com
PointlessSites.com is itself kind of an ugly site. But beneath its circa-1995 exterior lies the ultimate portal to online time-wasting. If you need to play a silly Flash-animated game, and you need to play it NOW, this site has you covered. You can vote for your favorite finds, or check out the top pointless sites of the month.

18RulesofThumb.org

www.rulesofthumb.org
This helpful site presents user-submitted "rules of thumb," which the community can rate for their usefulness. Want to harness the collective wisdom on managing your money, finding the perfect mate, or getting rid of back pain? RulesofThumb is the place to be. Whether the collective wisdom is on target, however, is a call you'll have to make yourself.

19Someecards

www.someecards.com
Given our experience with greeting cards, both e- and real-world, it comes as quite a shock that one of the funniest sites on the Web is an e-card service. Browsing through the site's enormous collection of hilarious e-cards was enough to make us wish we had friends to send them to.

20Totlol

www.totlol.com
YouTube is a phenomenon, but it's not exactly guaranteed to be kid-friendly. Totlol takes care of that. Actual human beings vet videos from all over the Web as suitable for kids age 6 months to 6 years and embed them at this site. I found classics like Kermit singing "It's Not Easy Being Green" on Sesame Street on up to modern VeggieTales and Wiggles and lots of obscure stuff in between. And of course, cute personal videos abound, all kid safe, all in bite-size chunks great for those kid-size (and modern adult) attention spans.

21TypeRacer

play.typeracer.com
Put your typing skills to the test with TypeRacer, which pits you against other players for the chance to win money, fame, women, and a slot on TypeRacer's leaderboard! (You actually get only one of those.)

22WonderMark

www.wondermark.com
Do you like your Web comic strips to have that old-timey feeling? Not Peanuts-and-Krazy Kat old-timey, we're talking 19th-century-woodcut-illustrations old-timey. That's exactly what you get with WonderMark, David Malki's twisted twice-a-week strip wherein Victorian-era men, women, and sometimes animals and objects converse with one another, usually ending with a punch line you'll never see coming, especially in the context of these public-domain Dickensian illos.

23YouTomb

youtomb.mit.edu
There are millions of videos up on YouTube, but thousands have also been removed, and not always with the owner's permission. If any footage online can be accused of copyright violation YouTube will take it down, whether or not the accusation was justified. YouTomb, a research project by the MIT Free Culture student group, tracks the top videos removed from the service for copyright violation, and retains the metadata about the videos so we, the public, can make our own decision about whether the removal was justified or not.

24Atmospheric Optics

www.atoptics.co.uk
Atmospheric Optics is a stunning collection of pictures that illustrate the strange and beautiful visual phenomena created by light, weather, and our atmosphere. Check out photos and explanations for everything from rainbows and ice halos to nacreous clouds and anti-crepuscular rays.

25CalorieLab

www.calorielab.com
CalorieLab has calorie info for just about every restaurant chain and type of food imaginable, so you can check the nutrition info before you even head to the restaurant. The site also lists the calorie-burning stats for lots of day-to-day activities, and there's a blog linking to fun (or gross) food news around the Web.

26Exploratorium

www.exploratorium.edu
The Web site of San Francisco's Exploratorium is an excellent resource for kids interested in finding out how the world around them works. Like its meatspace counterpart, the virtual Exploratorium emphasizes scientific discovery through activities and demonstrations, and there is plenty of fun content to keep curious kids engaged.

27OrganizedWisdom

www.organizedwisdom.com
Looking for answers to your health-related questions? OrganizedWisdom takes a different approach to search by offering search results in the form of "WisdomCards," curated topics pages with the info and links you need. Find the WisdomCard that corresponds to your question, and rest assured that the health advice is legit.

28ZocDoc

www.zocdoc.com
We absolutely love the idea of ZocDoc, a searchable directory of doctors and dentists that lets you search by insurance plan, location, or available appointment timesyou can even book same-day appointments! The site lets you review doctors, and the service works well, but as of right now it's available only in New York. Here's hoping the Web service spreads quickly.

29blippr

www.blippr.com
blippr takes the idea of a character-count limit, made popular by Twitter, and applies it to movie, book, music, and game reviews. You've got 160 words to weigh in on your favorite (or least favorite) stuff, so make them count; as with Twitter, the enforced conciseness of-ten makes for some brilliant writing. The site also uses your profile info and friends list to fuel a recommendation engine.

30Common Sense Media

www.commonsensemedia.org
Common Sense Media is an invaluable resource for parents who want to know more about the media their kids are consuming. CSM offers detailed, clear-eyed reports on the content of movies, music, video games, and more, without resorting to rants or value judgments. You can write and submit those yourself! (They'll be posted in the reader reviews section, separated into "Adult Reviews" and "Kid Reviews.")

31Criminal Searches

www.criminalsearches.com
Criminal Searches provides the scary-but-useful data on how many criminals live in your neighborhood, what crimes they were convicted of, and, in some cases, their names and personal info. It's all culled from public records, and is presented as a Google Maps mashup. You can restrict your search to sex offenders, search on a specific name to get a criminal history, or do a general search for criminals by city or ZIP code. This kind of data is certainly not for the faint of heart but can be useful in assessing the safety of your neighborhood.

32Damn Interesting

www.damninteresting.com
Did you know it's quite possible that a severed head may actually feel pain for a while, post-separation? I think that's damn interesting, and so do the editors at Damn Interesting, enough to write an 1,100-word article about it. Their goal is to "collect and dispense damn interesting facts and ideas, whether they appeared in the past, the present, or the (anticipated) future." For example, did you know a supercollider was almost built under the plains of central Texas? Or that New York almost had a subway system based on pneumatic tubes? If you find that damn interesting, visit Damn Interesting.

33ExpoTV

www.expotv.com
Here at PC Magazine, we love products. So a site filled with videotaped opinions and reviews about the latest toys, from phones to new cars, catches our attention. ExpoTV's catalog of video clips offers unique insights on products you may not have considered reading reviews of, such as yoga mats or highlighter pens. And if you make a video review of a product and submit it, ExpoTV may pay you $10 if they run it, with an extra penny each time it's played on the site (all via PayPal). Your video review may even make it on ExpoTV's video-on-demand shopping spots on cable TV.

34glassbooth

www.glassbooth.org
Which side of the political divide are you on? The Web (and Facebook) is rife with political quizzes that want to tell you who to vote for, but glassbooth goes a step further. After taking a short quiz, glassbooth tells you how your views line up with each candidate's, and why. The site also provides quotes from the candidates and links to more info about them, should you wish to research further.

35Howcast

www.howcast.com
Without a doubt, Howcast has the best-looking how-to videos on the Web. Perhaps better yet, the videos don't take themselves too seriously. How else to deal with topics like "How to Become an Ultimate Fighter" (quote: "embrace your failures") or "How to Get Rid of a One Night Stand" (you will need cunning and a poker face). Sign up to get a How-To Video of the Day via e-mail, as well as to be able to edit their how-to wikis, talk to experts in the community area, or upload your own videos. The user-generated stuff is okay, but the Howcast-produced vids are particularly great.

36HowToCleanStuff

www.howtocleanstuff.net
Whatever you get dirty, this site can probably tell you how to clean it. Items include: dryers, white wall tires, LCD screens, paintings, golf balls, fake plants, cookies (the browser kind), furniture, venetian blinds, every kind of floor, and clothing (and specific kinds of spills, like Kool-Aid and gum), and pets and people. For example, there is a step-by-step on de-skunking both humans and dogs, neither of which involve that old wives' tale of tomato juice. Perhaps the best: instructions on "How to Polish a Turd."

37NationMaster

www.nationmaster.com
Don't worry, it sounds more ominous than it really is. NationMaster aggregates world data on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects, letting you compare nations with one another based on many different criteria. For instance, America kicks the rest of the world's butt at soft-drink consumption.

38RepairPal

www.repairpal.com
Until recently, God and your mechanic were the only ones who knew how much it actually costs to replace the fuel injector on a '95 Toyota Previa. Thanks to RepairPal, that kind of info is now open to everyone. Punch in the make/model/year/mileage of your car, the necessary repair, and your ZIP code, and RepairPal will tell you how much you should expect to pay and where you can get the work done. The site also lets you rate your mechanic afterward.

39Searchme

www.searchme.com
Searchme is an innovative search engine that essentially uses Apple's Cover Flow interface to present your search results. To search, enter a term and then scroll horizontally through full previews of each relevant Web page until your find what you're looking for. You can also create "Stacks" of bookmarked Web pages to revisit later.

40Viewzi

www.viewzi.com
Viewzi aggregates search results from Google, Yahoo!, YouTube, and more, and lets you pick how you want them presented. Do you want just the text from the Web pages? Just the photos? Video previews (shown here)? Searching with Viewzi is fun and, depending on your search term, can actually be more convenient than a simple Google search.

41WhatTheFont

www.whatthefont.com
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and WhatTheFont helps you imitate the best graphic designers. To find out which font is being used in an image or on a Web site, upload a scanned image of it to WhatTheFont, or submit the URL. The service analyzes your submission and sends you the name of the font so you can use it in your own design projects.

42BleacherReport

www.bleacherreport.com
BleacherReport gives fans a chance to become sports journalists via this "open-source sports network." It's a vast site, full of sports news, facts, and, above all, opinions. From columns (like "The Top Ten Most Unwearable Jerseys") to demonstrations of fan fickleness ("Brett Favre: We Want to Quit You"), there's a ton of content here covering everything from the big leagues to sports that we Yanks don't get but everyone else in the world does, like soccer and cricket. That's right, we said cricket.

43Crazy Blind Date

www.crazyblinddate.com
Crazy Blind Date draws on people's faith in the lucky draw along with the matchmaking skills of parent site OKCupid to help set up singles in Austin, Boston, Chicago, D.C., L.A., N.Y.C., and S.F. Fill out a simple profile, upload a picture, and tell the service when and where you'd like to take the plunge, and whether you'd prefer a single or double date. If the service finds a match for you, it sends you your prospective date's self-description and a "super-blurry" picture. If you accept, the service arranges a date for you in a venue you approve. Who knows, maybe you'll get lucky!

44DailyLit

www.dailylit.com
You can never again use the excuse that you're in front of the computer too much to read a good book. DailyLit solves that problem. Visit the site, sign up, find a book you want to read, and start receiving the tome in easily readable chunks every day, every other day, or just once a week via e-mail or RSS. The majority of the titles are free, public-domain classics (think Dickens and Twain), but there's also several new books both free and paid. It might take a few years to read War and Peace this way, since it's delivered in 675 discrete parts, but at least you're reading.

45Design*Sponge

www.designspongeonline.com
There are lots and lots of design and DIY blogs out there, many of which are locked in an arms race to see who can find the most outlandish projects (like an antique chair reuphol-stered with thousand-dollar bills or a shower curtain made of clouds and rainbows). Design*Sponge sets itself apart in this crowded space with the practicality and doability of the projects it offers readers. As in: You and I could actually do most of this stuff and make it look great.

46Fantasy Football Hub

www.fantasyfootballhub.com
It's not much to look at (in fact, it may be the most hideous site in this year's collection), but football isn't about aestheticsfantasy football even less so. What Fantasy Football Hub is about is providing a massive clearinghouse of links for everything you could ever need to know about virtual pigskin. Whether it's finding a league to join or getting those all-important stats, injury reports, or rosters and depth charts, it's all here. There's even an Arena Football League section. With the resources at FFH, you could go all the way.

47Feministing

www.feministing.com
This broad-ranging feminist site hits all the buttons: from the serious (reports of cases in which women are denied a standard rape-kit exam) to the outrageous (15 percent of women in the military have suffered sexual trauma) to the absurd (abstinence thongs!). A dedicated corps of bloggers makes the site informative, fun, and balanced, and a lively community gives the readers a chance to contribute, amplify, debate, and even disagree.

48Inhabitat

www.inhabitat.com
Tired of design blogs that are all style and no substance? Inhabitat mixes it up with a focus on forward-looking designs that emphasize sustainability, efficiency, and interactivity. The site looks great and is chock-full of cool stuff, like these recent faves: a solar-powered tote bag, a collapsible stadium that seats 3,500, and an Ewok-style ecosphere that can be suspended in three trees for low-impact eco-resorts.

49LoveFoodHateWaste

www.lovefoodhatewaste.com
Even those who don't care about the ethics of food wasting are thinking thrifty, thanks to skyrocketing food prices. LoveFoodHateWaste pitches in with recipes that help you make use of food that might otherwise go bad. Need to use up some parsnips? Got some cottage cheese you'll never finish? Tell LFHW what you've got on hand, and the site suggests recipes that'll help you clean out your fridge and save money at the same time. We especially like the Rescue Recipes for foods that are already a bit past their best, like veggies that are "on the turn" or bread that's gotten a bit stale.

50Serious Eats

www.seriouseats.com
This foodie megablog combines the content from a family of sites ranging from an all-pizza blog to Required Eating's cornucopia of restaurant reviews. The site aggregates a ton of tasty content, including recipes and restaurant reviews, reader photo submissions (think cupcake-decorating achievements), offbeat product reviews (David Lynch's new organic coffee"as black as midnight on a moonless night") and food-related video clips, such as one of Charlie Rose chatting with Momofuku impresario David Chang.

51WooMe

www.woome.com
This online speed-dating site makes meeting people online easy and fun. There are no cumbersome profiles to (over)analyzejust pick a video-chat session to join and chat with five people in 5 minutes. If those first 60 seconds went well for both parties, WooMe charges a buck to swap your contact info.

52BillShrink

www.billshrink.com
If you think you're paying too much for your wireless plan, BillShrink can help. Just tell it how much you pay monthly, your ZIP code, and some usage details like how many minutes you tend to use, how often you send text messages, and average data use. BillShrink will then let you know which wireless carrier plan is right for your usage, and estimate your potential annual savings (which you can then spend on gas).

53Cyberhomes

www.cyberhomes.com
Cyberhomes has all the usual real-estate-site features, but adds a ton of nifty functionality to help you find not just the right home, but the right neighborhood, too. Get info and ratings for local schools, mine demographic data to find a neighborhood with (or without) children, or even search for a neighborhood by affluence. You can also track individual home prices and average price trends in the area.

54Glassdoor.com

www.glassdoor.com
Ever wonder what your cubicle neighbors' salaries are? Or what they really think of the boss? Find out on Glassdoor.com, which collects anonymous employer reviews and salary info. Some companies already have tons of reviews and salary info posted, but you'll have to add your own review before you can access anyone else's-as it should be.

55Stockhouse

www.stockhouse.com
Stockhouse is half social network for investment pros and plain ol' investors, and half information resource, letting users keep a finger on the pulse of the financial world. You can track stock prices, swap trading tips, and even add other users as friends. Just like Wall Street, but without all the golf and cigar smoke!

56Create Digital Music

createdigitalmusic.com
Whether you're a ProTools wiz, a GarageBand hobbyist, or just like to jam on your iPhone, Create Digital Music can point you to the right tools to perfect your sound. The site includes product reviews and announcements, music-production tips, and an active community offering helpful music-making advice.

57Favtape.com

www.favtape.com
Muxtape was originally included on our list of Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites, but as it's been taken down "temporarily" as of this writing, we're swapping in Favtape.com, crossing our fingers that it lasts long enough for our readers to enjoy it. Favtape.com lets users build playlists out of their fvaorite tracks from Last.fm or Pandora. Share your handcrafted "mixtapes" with friends, or listen to others' from the Favtape.com homepage.

58RadioTime

www.radiotime.com
Got a favorite country station in Nashville? Want to hear what your college station is spinning this afternoon? RadioTime lets you tune in to the online streams of terrestrial radio stations, whether they're in your neighborhood or across the country.

59Songza

www.songza.com
Songza is a search engine that gives you easy access to streamable MP3s across the Web. Enter a song, artist, or both and Songza serves it up free of chargeyou can even build playlists. Where does all this free music come from? Best not to ask.

60TheSixtyOne

www.thesixtyone.com
TheSixtyOne is one of our favorite places to discover new music. The Digg-like music-streaming service lets you vote songs up or down, and provides just the right amount of customizability. Those with adventurous musical tastes can listen to newly uploaded tracks, while mainstream listeners can stick to the tunes that have already risen to the top with lots of votes.

61Wolfgang's Vault

www.wolfgangsvault.com
Click on the "Concert Vault" on Wolfgang's Vault's home page to be granted free access to musical paradise. The Concert Vault has vintage recordings of thousands of live shows by rock legends like Clapton, Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Who, The Rolling Stones, and many, many more. All the recordings are free to stream, and these aren't crappy bootlegs; they're master recordings from Bill Graham's archives and other reputable catalogs.

62AMERICAblog

www.americablog.com
This left-leaning blog takes an activist slant on political reporting, and turns a sharp eye on the 2008 presidential campaign and its coverage by the media. You may not have heard of this site, but you've probably seen, heard, or read political stories that were first broken on AMERICAblog.

63MobLogic.tv

www.moblogic.tv
The man-on-the-street interview is as old as TV, but it gets a nice treatment from MobLogic, a site run by CBS Interactive. Host Lindsay Campbell used to do the same thing for another CBS site covering Wall Street, but she hit her stride at MobLogic covering more than just the usual stuff, such as a trip to Atlanta for a planned capital execution and getting herself arrested at a New York City protest. News commentary on the Web is seldom more engaging.

64Orato.com

www.orato.com
One of the better "citizen journalism" sites we've seen, Orato gives readers a chance to break free of the mainstream media by writing the news themselves. There's a good mix of political news and lighter fare, andsurprise!many of the user-submitted articles are quite compelling.

65ScotusBlog

www.scotusblog.com
Want to know what's going on in the chambers of the highest court in the land? This excellent blog and its wiki-sister, ScotusWiki, offer expert and exhaustive coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court. You'll find quickie news updates and in-depth analyses of rulings, as well as links to other Scotus coverage around the Web.

66Townhall.com

www.townhall.com
Townhall aggregates content from leading conservative columnists and right-leaning partner sites, and offers all kinds of news formats: straight news, opinion, podcasts, blogs, and much more. You can even search for stories by political issue.

67Truemors

www.truemors.com
Don't call it a gossip site. Rather, Truemors is a user-generated rumor/news site. You can submit true rumors of your own in many different categories, or just browse the stories that have been submitted by others and vote for your favorites.

68BLDG BLOG

bldgblog.blogspot.com
That Geoff Manaugh's blog has won awards for its eclectic coverage of "architectural conjecture, urban speculation, and landscape futures" is no surprise. Dive into the contents and even if you're not into reading well-written posts about the buildings and structures that surround us, you'll be sucked in by the stunning artwork he digs up.

69Boston.com: The Big Picture

www.boston.com/bigpicture
Three times a week, Boston.com's Alan Taylor posts a series of big, beautiful pictures depicting stories currently in the news. "Beautiful" doesn't always do these photographs justice. These photojournalistic images from a variety of professional sourcesReuters, AP, Getty, NASA, just about any source except Flickrare frequently the best ways to illustrate stories as diverse as the destructive California wildfires and recent floods, the majesty of the surface of Mars, and the gory spectacle of the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Kudos to Boston.com for running the pics as large as it does, bigger than an 800-by-600-resolution monitor can see without scrolling.

70Earth Album

www.earthalbum.com
This isn't the first mash-up of Flickr and Google Maps, but we think it's one of the best. Earth Album fills your browser with a full map of the world, courtesy of Google. Click on any location, and geotagged photos appear in a strip on the top of the interface. Click one to see it larger and get a description from the photographer. Naturally, you can zoom in on the map to get more specific choices. Big cities and tourist destinations have the most photos associated with them, but click around to get a variety. You can even search for photos at specific addresses.

71PicApp

www.picapp.com
PicApp can make a world of difference on your blog or Web site. It's a free stock-photo service that lets you quickly and easily grab photos of whatever subject you need for use on your blog. PicApp has quite a large image catalog, and photos range from run-of-the-mill stock photos to celebrity pics.

72SquareAmerica

www.squareamerica.com
If you're lucky, somewhere in your parents' or grandparents' house there is a box that once held shoes. In that box are hundreds of photos, each one a gem, even if it's a terrible pic. We can't promise you that you'll find personal family memories in the vintage snapshots at SquareAmerica, but you will see primo examples of that type of family photographymostly in black and white but sometimes in full, glorious Kodachrome color. This site is not about professional-looking shots, only the shots you might get out of a family vacation to Florida, or that staged fight between uncles at the picnic. The kind that make memories.

73Tag Galaxy

www.taggalaxy.de
Visual representations of data are nothing new, but Tag Galaxy takes it to new heights in searching Flickr photos. Enter a single keyword (I used "frog") and you'll see a 3D representation of a solar system with the keyword as the sun, orbited by related word "planets" (e.g., "amphibian," "green," and "toad"). Click a planet to combine keywords, or just click the sun (your main keyword) to get a unique photo-sphere covered with up to 236 images pulled from Flickr. Spin it in any direction with the mouse, clicking shots for close-ups. It takes a while to surf them all this way, but makes for a fascinating time waster.

74Catalog Choice

www.catalogchoice.org
Tired of your mailbox being stuffed with tons of annoying catalogs that you end up throwing away? Catalog Choice is a free service that lets you refuse catalogs you wish to no longer receive. The service cleans out your mailbox and saves a few trees at the same time.

75Gazelle.com

www.gazelle.com
The big dilemma for early adopters is what to do with all that not-quite-obsolete tech gear that you've already replaced. Gazelle will pay you cash for it. Just enter the make and model of your gadget, and its condition, and you'll get an on-the-spot offer. You'll get a box in the mail to ship it in, and you're done. The service accepts cameras, MP3 players, cell phones, laptops, and much more.

76The Impulsive Buy

www.theimpulsivebuy.com
As soon as we saw The Impulsive Buy for the first time, we lamented that our RSS readers had been incomplete for so long. Basically, TIB is just some guy writing about consumer products, but both the products he selects and the words he uses to describe them are truly inspired.

77SomethingStore

www.somethingstore.com
Need a little random surprise in your life? Check out SomethingStore; for an even ten bucks, SomethingStore will send you…something. You don't get to pick, and the process is entirely random. Maybe you'll get a laptop bag, maybe you'll get a GPS device, maybe you'll get a tacky piece of costume jewelry.

78Typo Buddy

www.typobuddy.com
Want to save money on eBay auctions? One tip is to look for auctions with the fewest bidders. TypoBuddy helps out by searching for commonly misspelled words on eBay, pointing you to hidden gems in the eBay catalog. Less competition for these typo entries means better deals for you.

79Wigix

www.wigix.com
Wigix exists for one reason: To give buyers and sellers a cheaper alternative to eBay. If you think eBay's fees are low enough as they are, then you've no need for Wigix. But if you're a disgruntled Power Seller or bidder, you might like its low fees and wealth of features like price histories and social-shopping options.

80Zilok

us.zilok.com
Is your wallet too thin to buy that sports car, D-SLR, or set of golf clubs? Got a sports car, D-SLR, or set of clubs that you aren't using? Zilok connects users who have stuff to rent with users who need to rent stuff. So instead of buying a Nikon D80, you can rent one to use on your vacation for a few bucks a day.

81Eons.com

www.eons.com
Eons is a social network geared specifically for baby boomers. The site allows people in the maybe-too-old-for-MySpace set to explore their passions and interests, keep in touch with friends and family, connect with people sharing similar experiences, and even play games.

82FriendFeed

www.friendfeed.com
We have stared into the social-networking abyss and it is the information overload named FriendFeed. The service aggregates all your social content and activity from Facebook, Flickr, Digg, YouTube, Twitter, Last.fm, blogs, and so on. It aggregates your friends' activity, too, giving you a meta-feed of your online social life. Depending on how active your friends are, it can be a pleasant stream of sociality, or like trying to drink from a firehose. Either way, we love it.

83SocialVibe

www.socialvibe.com
Millions of eyeballs stare at social networks every day, but can they be used for good? SocialVibe thinks so. Users select a charity, then select a favorite brand or product. An ad for that brand goes on the user's social-network profile, and the proceeds from the ad go to the chosen charity. Maybe it is possible to feel good about yourself on MySpace!

84SoSauce

www.sosauce.com
SoSauce is a slick social-networking platform for photo and travel enthusiasts. Users can upload photos, blog about travel experiences, and even play multiplayer games. The site is not as profile-based as other social networks, but instead is built around sharing and showing off your content.

85Coding Horror

www.codinghorror.com
Programming sites aren't supposed to be fun to read, right? Perusing a blog on the subject should possess all the excitement of scanning a page of source code. Coding Horror breaks this cardinal rule by offering up posts that, while full of information for Web programmers and developers, are also surprisingly readable for the rest of uswell, the rest of us geeks, at least.

86FixYa

www.fixya.com
Looking for some tech tips? FixYa aggregates user-generated how-tos about products ranging from iPods and GPS devices to washing machines and SUVs. Post your problems and ask one of the site's experts. FixYa also offers up online manuals, product specs, and tips and tricks.

87Google Operating System

googlesystem.blogspot.com
The Google Operating System blog (which is not affiliated with Google) is all about the areas where that company is working bit by bit to turn its services and the Web itself into the equivalent of an online OS. The blog is a great source for anyone with a heavy interest or investment in Google services (Docs, Apps, Maps, iGoogle, YouTube, Picasa, Gtalk, GOOG-411the list goes on) to get tips and learn what's new in the Google-sphere.

88Hack n Mod

www.hacknmod.com
Let's face it, we can't all be Ben Heck. Fortunately, the kindly folks at Hack n Mod have developed a site that can help you build pretty much anything out of pretty much anything else. Some of our current favorites include turning a GameBoy into an iPod, turning an old PC into a functioning server, and creating your own electric bike.

89Malware City

www.malwarecity.com
We're not sure of the latitude or longitude of Malware City, but we imagine that it's located adjacent to Sin City and Cape Fear. This BitDefender-owned site is a great resource for malware information, packaged in a digestible film-noir style. Read the news, check the current malware threat level, or consult the virus map-just don't leave unprotected.

90OhGizmo!

www.ohgizmo.com
All gadget blogs are created equal, right? Far from it. When you're sick of reading about the umpteenth Apple rumor, check out OhGizmo!, a site devoted to the more offbeat gadgets on the Web, from MP3 players devoted to the rock band Journey to Louis Vuitton Trash Bags. This blog shines the wackier it gets.

91Phone Arena

www.phonearena.com
Phone blogging is a fairly crowded space, to be sure, but Phone Arena stands out as one of our favorites, thanks to in-depth reviews, great Web design, plenty of pictures, and an active, devoted user community.

92Rock, Paper, Shotgun

www.rockpapershotgun.com
Does the world need another gaming blog? Maybe not, but heck, we can always use another well-written, clever, and frequently updated entry into the space. Rock, Paper, Shotgun hits all of those notes and then some. Oh, yeah, and bonus points for being the only gaming blog I've read in recent memory to casually toss out the word "dichotomy." Yep, they totally dropped a D bomb.

93SafeSurfer

www.safesurfer.org
Protecting your kids on the Internet and teaching them safe browsing habits doesn't have to be dullso says Safe Surfer. The site is jam-packed with games, news, and resources aimed at helping kids protect themselves against the dangers of the World Wide Web.

94TechDailyDose

techdailydose.nationaljournal.com
It's a bit nichey for most, but for those interested in the role technology plays in government would be hard-pressed to find a better news outlet than this National Journal-run blog. From piracy to Net neutrality to online campaigning, this site is a fantastic resource for exploring tech policy inside the Beltway.

95Web Designer Wall

www.webdesignerwall.com
It's a touch ironic, to be sure, but it's rare to find a Web design site that's actually, you know, well designed. Featuring tips, tricks, and tutorials, Web Design Wall is chock-full of helpful tips for amateur and professional designers alikeand it's pretty nice to look at, to boot.

96EveryScape

www.everyscape.com
The big online mapping services offer photograph-based street views that let you see what your destination looks like from the street, but newcomer EveryScape goes even farther by letting you explore both the street view and the interiors of buildings, too. The service also helps users find hotels, restaurants, and popular tourist sites with reviews from Yelp.com. Photographers on the ground are shooting as many building interiors as they can as EveryScape continues to roll out to new cities.

97Farecast

farecast.live.com
Plane ticket prices go up and down seemingly at random; you could buy a ticket today only to see the price sink (or spike) tomorrow. Farecast makes sense of it all by tracking pricing trends to let you know when it's time to pull the trigger. Enter in your travel dates, and Farecast will give you a pricing chart going back several weeks, along with a recommendation of whether to buy or wait.

98Happy Median

www.happymedian.com
This quirky mapping site lets you enter in several addresses and offers meeting places in the middle of them, whether you're looking for a restaurant, movie theater, golf course, or lodging. Enter up to four addresses, with the assurance that your meeting place will be fair to all.

99InsideTrip

www.insidetrip.com
There are zillions of flight search engines that find the best flights for you based on travel dates, airports, and especially price. But InsideTrip takes it one step further by letting you add comfort level as a search parameter. Is legroom important to you? Aircraft type? Lost-bag or on-time percentages? InsideTrip has you covered.

100TripIt

www.tripit.com
TripIt takes the hassle out of travel itineraries. Simply forward your travel confirmation e-mails to its e-mail address and TripIt will build you a master itinerary, complete with flight/hotel info, maps, driving directions, weather reports, and much more. TripIt is also rolling out automated travel guides so you know what to expect once you get there.